This course provides high-quality training in economics and finance and will prepare you for a wide variety of careers in business, government and academia. The course will enable you to effectively tackle the real-world problems encountered in financial sector institutions, banks and regulatory institutions. We have an excellent reputation for the quality of our teaching and we provide training for employers including the Treasury and Bank of England. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), more than half of our research outputs in Economics were ranked world-leading or internationally excellent.

To be considered for direct entry to a Master's degree at Birkbeck, you will normally be required to have successfully completed a Bakalavr/Specialist Diploma from a recognised university with a minimum final grade of 3.5 for programmes requiring a UK 2:2 Non-EU students are encouraged to submit GRE or GMAT results. In some cases, the admissions tutor may request these results in order to make a decision on your application. In that case, you should upload your score report to the online application system as if it were an additional transcript page.